Hi all
This blog will move to http://blogs.eliasen.dk/technical/ before long. No new posts will be added to this blog, and as soon as I have the time, I will try to set up some forward mechanism that automatically forwards from this blog to the new one so I can delete it.
I am really hoping that this will mean a minimum of inconvenience to all readers of this blog.
The reason I am momving away from this blog is that I am using dasBlog, which oer the years has grown more and more unstable and useless. It will not remember my login, the text editor on the blog web site has lost its wysiwyg editor. Windows Live Writer can no longer post to it and more. Basically, dasBlog hasn't moved along with .NET and it is simply time for me to move away from it. Also, BlogEngine.NET has just released version 2.5 which has the option of having multiple blogs in one installation so I am consolidating my blogs into one installation, making upgrading to newer versions a one-time-action instead of a one-tim-per-blog-action
The new RSS feed will be located at http://blogs.eliasen.dk/technical/syndication.axd - please update any RSS readers accordingly. Thanks
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eliasen

This blog will NOT change! Well… personal blog entries will not appear anymore, but other than that, I will still be blogging about technological abnormalities, funny things, strange things, errors, and what not…

Well, after 7 months at thy:data it seemed clear to me, that thy:data wasn't the place I wanted to work. Luckily at the same time, my old employer WM-data, that has changed its name to Logica, was searching for someone exactly with my skills. So it didn't take long for us to reach an agreement, and therefore, on the 1'st April, I am starting at Logica.

I am really looking forward to this - I will be going back to all my old colleagues, and my assignments will vary much, going from presale, writing quotes and promoting Logica to Microsoft to actual design and development of large integration projects, based on BizTalk, .NET3.0 and stuff.

11 years ago (when I was a soldier), I was quite the runner. My best times are 5 km in 17:30 and half a marathon (21,0975 km) in 1:32:46.

Since then, the weight has come up, as the amount of exercise went down .

Anyway, I have lost about 7kg in the last 3-4 months, and now was the time to start running again... and today was the first time.

A local fitness center had an offer for new members, that I have taken, so not only did I run today for the first time in a very long time, I also did it on a running machine. That took some getting used to! I managed to get the damn machine running, but then it stopped... then I started it again... and then it stopped. Probably next time I will get some help figuring out how to set the machine appropriately. The run itself went fairly well... around 7km. I will have to bring some music the next time, though.

It felt pretty weird, that I did some interval training, where the maximum speed (16 km/h) was just about the same speed as I ran for an hour without breaks in my earlier years (15 km/h)

So, any goals, Jan? Yes, off course. I have a couple;

I would like my average time to run 1 km to be about 4 minutes.

At "Limfjordsløbet" (14 km) at the end of May (2008 ), I want to run faster than a friend of mine called Tom. Also, running faster than my old boss Anne would be nice . 4 minutes per kilometer would take care of both

At some point, I want to run a marathon. I will wait a couple of months to set any specific dates, times, etc. for this one, since I am really in no shape to guess right now

My legs are fine, I believe.. but perhaps tomorrow I will edit that part out of this blog post

The plan now is to run every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday on average.. sometimes it will be Wednesday instead of Tuesday and so on.

Inspired by my post some weeks ago about me mending a fuse on our car, I really have outdone myself this time.

First of all, I have changed a light bulbe on my parents car.

Secondly, I have exchanged the dripping faucet in our kitchen for a brand new none-dripping one. It was actually quite a mess, and after a couple of trial-and-errors, I got it working. So now we have a new faucet in the kitchen - it doesn't drip, and I made the switch!

This isn't about BizTalk, .NET or anything else technical. This is about ME!

The other day I mended a fuse in our car.

Really? you might say.. so what? Well, to me this is a big deal I don't like getting dirty hands - I generally never do anything practical around the house... I am lousy at it, I hate it, and I would rather pay someone else to do it.

But then, the back light on the car stopped working. I changed the light bulbe, which in itself took me about 2 hours, including driving to the gas station to buy a new bulbe... and then it turned out the original bulbe wasn't broken. That sucked! Then I decided I had to take the car to the mechanic... but a friend asked me if I had checked the fuses. Well, duh... off course not - how would I do that? So with the manual in one hand and a screwdriver (YES, a screwdriver... me... a screwdriver...) in the other hand, I found the fuse that wasn't working anymore. I drove, once again, to the gas station, bought a new one (approximately one dollar) and put it into place. And now the back lights are working again.

WOW! What en experience, eh?

So after reading this, you might still think: "Is this guy crazy? All this fuzz about mending a fuse (Thanks to Mads Orbesen Troest for telling me how to say this in English)? YES! It's a bg deal!

A couple of weeks ago, I switched from using web10 to using needhost as my web hotel provider. The primary reason for this was, that the mail service at web10 was incredibly instable. Half of the time, I couldn't connect with my pop3 server, and then suddenly, my mailbox was frozen somehow, so no new mail arrived for me for 6-7 days. That did it, and I switched to needhost.

I am very happy being at needhost - and everything seems to work well right now.

Recently, I decided it was time for me to start looking for a new job. Luckily, I found a new one, and as of August 1'st, I am no longer employed at WM-data. I have been at WM-data since June 23'rd 2003 - just after I got my masters degree in computer science. I have been very happy with the job, but lately, I started wondering if another job might be even better.

I found this job at thy:data, where I have been hired as a solution architect for their integration projects. I will still be using BizTalk Server and I will still be the same me - just at another company.

Also, as a little side effect, I have decided to start a very small freelance company with just me in it. the company will be called eliasen.eu and the homepage with more information will be available soon, I hope.

I received the diploma for passing the 74-135 exam in BizTalk server 2004 the other day.

And... well... see if you can spot the error:

I have phoned support. They will correct it and send me another diploma. Until then, I am very proud to be the only person in the world (unless anyone else has gotten the same diploma?) that is certified in BizTalk Server 2003 :D